VT PhD Graduate and current VT student win an excellence award for 2017 solar eclipse experiment
By: miker on: Mon., Nov. 13, 2017 02:07 PM EST (5988 Reads)
The Yasme Foundation Board of Directors has announced that Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, a former student in the VT SuperDARN group, and Magda Moses, a current Space@VT student, have received a Yasme Foundation 2017 Excellence Award. The award is for 'creating and leading the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) organization that sponsored the Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SQEP)...the largest Amateur Radio experiment ever devised.' Nathaniel is now an assistant professor at NJIT and is preparing to ship out to Antarctica. The full text of the citation can be found at
http://www.arrl.org/news/yasme-foundation-announces-excellence-awards-and-supporting-grant ![]() ![]() Congratulations, Magda and Nathaniel! (Photo from the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.) |